Best Red Blush To Buy For A Natural Look

If there’s one make-up product I can’t live without, it’s blusher. For days when I am just popping out (or really can’t be bothered), all I reach for is a touch of brow gel, a little under-eye brightener and some pink liquid blusher. The latter brightens up my face so brilliantly, I wonder how I ever lived without it. But recently, I’ve been laying down my pink in favour of – bear with me – a true red, which has completely taken me by surprise.

As seems to be the way at the moment, red blusher seemed to gain a lot of interest on social but using this primary colour to warm the skin is not in any way new. RMS founder and Make-up Artist Rose-Marie Swift says: “What people don’t know is that when I did the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show for years, they had to look very natural and they had a beautiful flush of colour – a lot of people always think it’s pink, but it wasn’t, it was red. The red gives that little bit of depth to it and looks more natural… almost like the sun gave you a hint of a burn.”

When you think about it, it makes complete sense. After all, our natural flush is usually more of a rouge than a blush, so it would add up that a red blusher would look even more natural than pink. It’s the ideal colour for a touch of blush draping too. This is the technique of applying blush to the apples of your cheeks, across your cheek bones and up onto the temples to sculpt and define. Worn subtly across the nose and at the brow bone, this can look beautiful when sheered out. It also tends to suit all skin tones, making it a diverse blusher shade to play with.

Best red blushers